Our Clients

In our industry, references and client testimonials are crucial for ensuring quality. COX’s client portfolio is broad and discerning. This aligns perfectly with what we offer: A comprehensive blend of consulting, coaching, and training expertise, coupled with high standards for every project. We promise: the more critical you are of consultants, the greater the chance that we’re the right fit for you. But see for yourself.

Our Clients

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Our consulting references highlight the strategic and organizational issues we have already helped companies address—ranging from change management and organizational development to strategy and innovation. We support organizations in effectively implementing change, refining structures, and designing sustainable solutions to complex challenges.

Change Management

Supporting complex transformation, restructuring, and relocation processes in national and international companies (particularly in the pharmaceutical industry), developing effective change architectures to ensure stability, commitment, and implementation capacity, transforming organizations and their structural and operational frameworks, and establishing leadership and collaboration models in dynamic change environments

Organizational Development

Establishing scalable organizational and leadership structures in growing companies (including startups, family businesses, agencies, and software companies), developing modern leadership and corporate cultures—including sustainable development and implementation processes—and designing high-performing organizational models and internal organizational development structures

Strategy

Development and implementation of long-term corporate, divisional, and site strategies; design of effective governance and management models for sustainable strategy implementation; results-oriented profitability and transformation programs with measurable impact

Product Development

Development of new product and business opportunities based on in-depth market and organizational analyses; design and facilitation of structured product development and innovation processes (particularly large-group workshops); development of actionable innovation portfolios with a clear business focus

Our training references highlight the contexts in which we have already supported companies – from leadership development and change management to team and cultural initiatives. Here you will find a selection of training programs and learning formats that we have implemented in recent years in collaboration with our clients.

Leadership Practice

Training and support for people managers at an international pharmaceutical company—from theoretical knowledge transfer via e-learning to practical exercises in in-person training, Acquisition of leadership skills in an open group of executives and management teams to deepen and reflect on current leadership practices; delivery of tailored leadership training for all leaders within an organization (division heads, department heads, deputies) with the goal of strengthening competencies to implement organization-wide leadership guidelines and behavioral anchors

Leadership Identity

Supporting the further development of personal leadership identity at an insurance group for experienced executives in two parts—from analyzing the impact of personal leadership behavior to working on leadership reflexes and patterns in challenging situations

Leading Change

Developing change management skills among cultural leaders in the communications industry to enhance understanding of emotions in change processes and how to manage them

Insights MDI®

Workshop to develop self-awareness and interpersonal skills within a team in the pharmaceutical industry to enhance understanding of diverse needs in collaboration; large-scale workshop for an entire department to raise awareness of the role of behavioral styles in collaboration; discussion on different team compositions and dynamics

Our coaching references highlight the professional situations in which we have already supported individuals ranging from leadership and career coaching to team and change management contexts. Our team of coaches brings extensive practical experience, solid training, and diverse professional backgrounds to the table. Our work is grounded in high-quality standards, professional reflection, and adherence to the ICF’s ethical guidelines.

Business and Top Management Coaching

Support for board members transitioning to the next higher position, preparation for assuming new roles, understanding and consciously shaping one’s own impact as a leader, and expanding one’s comfort zone in leadership activities, Support with succession planning within a family-owned group, including training to acquire the necessary competencies for the future role; strengthening the self-management of a leader who is experiencing burnout, with the goal of developing concrete prioritization strategies and preventing burnout

Career Coaching

Increasing visibility by building strategic networks and leveraging established power structures, developing a personal leadership identity before and during the transition to a new leadership role, Supporting a young professional in preparing for their upcoming leadership role (including a retrospective with the predecessor to ensure knowledge transfer, strategic planning of the transition phase into the new role, and preparation for the first 100 days as a team leader), mapping out next career steps – with the goal of aligning strengths, values, and career options

Leadership and Team Development

Addressing dysfunctions in teams with the goal of understanding the root causes of latent tensions between team members and leaders and jointly developing sustainable solutions; better understanding personalities and their diverse needs within teams and leveraging this knowledge for future collaboration and communication; supporting and providing change management training for leaders who are themselves affected by an upcoming site closure and who, in turn, are expected to support their own employees

What our clients say

We have been working with Michaela Sauerwein for several years as part of our executive development programme. Her training combines deep expertise, a wide range of methods and a strong understanding of participants’ needs. Particularly impressive is her ability to create trusted learning environment where leaders can engage as equals and reflect openly. Her programmes are not only insightful and well grounded, but also inspiring and impactful. Michaela Sauerwein is a valued partner in the ongoing development of our leadership culture.

Martina Mader / People Development, International HR & Mobility / Österreichische Post AG

From day one, our collaboration with COX was characterised by structure, clarity and creativity. Through careful preparation and open dialogue, we worked together to find the right approach for our project. As a result, we now have a refreshed corporate culture, clear leadership principles and a new organisational structure. We are well positioned to meet the challenges of the years ahead.

Mag. Eva Goetz, Mag. Wolfgang Gallei, Mag. Monika Pucher Managing Directors and Head of Human Resources KOKO Contact and Communication Centre for Children

COX is consistently professional and results-oriented. The team stands out for its expertise, clear communication and bespoke solutions. Their consultancy has helped us optimise processes and make strategically important decisions with confidence. Highly recommended.

Willhelm Prommegger / Authorized Signatory / Salzburger Verkehrsbetriebe

Michaela is an outstanding management consultant and executive coach, combining extensive business leadership experience with strategic consulting and leadership coaching expertise. I have come to know her as a highly knowledgeable, empathetic and insightful professional who is committed to making a difference at both an organisational and a personal level. Working with Michaela as a consultant or coach can be truly transformational.

Belkis Elisabeth Etz / Global HR Executive / LeanIX

The business coaching exceeded my expectations in every respect. I was particularly impressed by the combination of consulting and executive coaching. It provided both practical, well-founded strategies for developing my business and valuable insights to strengthen my leadership. The approach is highly personalised, solution-focused and designed to deliver lasting results. I can wholeheartedly recommend it.

Christina Nikolaus / Co-Founder and CEO / Okapi:Orbits

Exceptionally well organised, highly professional and the perfect blend of theory and practice – by far the best training programme I’ve attended.

Julia Erlach / KOKO Contact and Communication Centre for Children

The training was amazing!

Daniel Berger / KOKO Contact and Communication Centre for Children

COX Coaching & Consulting supported our management development programme in the tax advisory sector with a wealth of expertise – and even more Austrian charm. The combination of sound methodology, a light-hearted sense of humour and genuine warmth quickly built trust and created an exceptionally open and effective learning environment. Our managers not only learnt but also laughed – and clearly grew as a result. I highly recommend COX.

Marina Zellwecker / Law Office Zellwecker

Michaela Sauerwein and her team have supported us at Austrian Post with a range of team-building initiatives and development projects. Their high standards and commitment to quality have ensured that every project was tailored to our needs. We have been working together for the past 18 months and look forward to many more successful projects in the future.

Nicole Schlögl / VP Marketing & Product Management / Austrian Post

During a product development workshop, we generated 300 ideas from a shared knowledge base and refined them into a winning concept.

Eva Hübner / Head of Membership & Travel Insurance, Product Management, Market Research, and Analytics / ÖAMTC

It’s always a collaboration between equals. There’s plenty of humour – we laugh a lot. It’s genuinely enjoyable. And while a workshop may sound like hard work, it doesn’t feel that way. The enjoyment is a big part of why we’ve made so much progress.

Christian Pothorn / CEO / INTARIA

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